Around noon time as I was finishing up lunch somebody stop by camp asking for help getting their Silverado jump started. After putting up gear I headed over and he mentioned he didn’t have jump cables. I had them but it been years since I used them so I wasn’t sure if they would work as sometimes wire gets bent.

At first I couldn’t get it to jump. Then a crazy thunderstorm came rolling in and I closed the hood and ran back into the truck. Checking through the manual I was reminded about the ground lug on the engine and when the rain let up, I hooked up the trucks with the grounding lugs and the batteries positives and the other truck fired up. I was thinking I would be making a a trip down to Dolgeville for a while to give the guy a ride and obviously get ice cream at Green Acres on my way back to camp.

Not the first time I’ve given or received a jump start in the back country. Or otherwise needed or given help as needed for some mechanical reason. Shit happens! Guy offered me money, turned him down.